is for Howard Dean to play the roll of Bill Bradley-the intellectual candidate that refuses to rise to the bait of the bullying front runner. Perhaps Dean can roll his eyes when Kerry sends the attack dogs after him and remember he is only a sacrificial lamb.
Or maybe he can fight. Dean is a centrist on nearly every issue, but he isn’t going to take it lying down. And he is a hell of a lot like another centrist governor who played hardball in the primary and got the nomination. If you want to criticize all of the candidates for attacks on other Dems–fine. A few comments by Dean make me uncomfortable, but don’t single him out and not the clown who hired Lehane as his flak.
The most vacuous complaint comes from The New Republic argues he should have risen above the fray. Yeah, that worked well for Bradley. And um…would the advice to stay above the bad blood start with From who started the little catfight?
Next you know, From and TNR will be calling him shrill…